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"BUDDY" WINGFIELDS NEW JOB Making His Trip to California, Where He Will Be the Starter at Hollywood Park. INGLE WOOD, Calif., May 12— George R. "Buddy" Wingfield, well known "Beau Brum-mel of the Barrier"- on eastern race tracks, who was recently signed as starter at Hollywood Park, will be making his first trip to California for the second summer turf meeting, which begins here May 30. Although he has served as a starter up and dawn the Atlantic seaboard and from New Orleans to Chicago, Wingfield has never been to the Golden State. Wingfield was born in Covington, Ky., forty years ago. He first hit the race tracks in 1910, being employed as an exercise boy for T. P. Hayes. A year later he was a race rider, bagging his first winner at Pensacola, Fla. The best horse he ever rode, he says, was R. F. Carmans Meridian. In his nearly thirty years* experience around race tracks Wingfield has worked in every official capacity, with the exception of racing secretary. He began getting his starting education as a member of Tom J.Browns ground crew. Of all the thousands of horses he has had to deal with, Wingfield is emphatic in naming Reveille Boy and Columbia the toughest rogues at the barrier. His favorite hobby is baseball, which he follows avidly. He likes to fish and play golf, but his work keeps him too busy to indulge in very much of either sport. He admits weighing 176 pounds, which is exactly 100 more than when he first came on the race tracks as an exercise boy. Hollywood Park will be the thirteenth race course at which Wingfield has been employed as a starter. He has dispatched the fields at Tropical Park, in Florida; Oriental Park, in Havana, Cuba; Jefferson Park and Fair Grounds, in New Orleans; Hawthorne, Aurora and Fairmount Park, in Illinois; Thistle Down Park, River Downs and Bainbridge Park, in Ohio; Rockingham Park, in New Hampshire, and Narragansett Park, where he is currently employed, in Rhode Island.
